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Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince's Tour of India, 1875-6

Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince's Tour of India, 1875-6

Meghani, Kajal

Hardcover

Art HistoryIndian & South Asian History

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ISBN10: 1909741426
ISBN13: 9781909741423
Publisher: Royal Collection Pubn
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 200
Weight: 2.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.50 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
In 1875, King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, set off on an eight-month tour of the Indian subcontinent. By the end of his travels, he had visited more than ninety rulers throughout twenty-one regions, which today encompass India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal. At many of these meetings intended to strengthen the ties between Britain and the Indian subcontinent, he was presented with exquisite South Asian works of art, given as part of a traditional exchange of gifts.

Splendours of the Subcontinent tells the story of the Prince's tour through a close look at the wide array of beautiful gifts that he received. Many were precious heirlooms from rulers' personal collections, while others were specially commissioned from local artists and artisans. Among the gifts, many of which have never been published and all of which have all been newly photographed, are a beautifully ornamented dagger, a set of small brass military figures, a gold-enameled, diamond-encrusted inkstand in the shape of a barge similar to the one in which the Prince traveled down the River Ganges, and a pair of flywhisks made of peacock feathers inlaid with diamonds.

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